Bede

Bede

( 673-735); Eng. historian & theologian: his day is May 27

called the Venerable Bede

Bede

also Bae·da or Be·da Known as “the Venerable Bede.” 673?-735

Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian whose major work, Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation (731), written in Latin, remains an important source of ancient English history. He introduced the method of dating events from the birth of Jesus.

Sentence Examples

The first king of Deira of whom we know was Ella, or Aelle, who, according to Bede, was still reigning when Augustine arrived in 597.

Eadberht showed considerable independence in his dealings with the church, and his brother Ecgberht, to whom the well-known letter of Bede is addressed, was from 734 to 766 archbishop of York.

- Bede, Historia ecclesiastica, ed.

Attached was also a bede or almshouse for twelve poor men.

According to Bede she took the veil in 614, when Oswio was king of Northumbria and Aidan bishop of Lindisfarne, and spent a year in East Anglia, where her sister Hereswith had married ZEthelhere, who was to succeed his brother Anna, the reigning king.